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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

workforce participation growth between 2010-2020, the report noted. increase in undergrad engineering enrollment rates from 2010 (9.1%) to 2021 (15.8%). Latino adults with mental illness receive treatment each year, a noticeable gap from the national average, 46.2%. trillion, despite comprising only 19.1% of the U.S. population.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Incoming transfer students can enroll in courses early to guarantee that they have access to coursework. Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. Currently, 60.1%

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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Expansion and diversity in higher education (1980s-1990s) During the 1980s and 1990s, higher education in the United States underwent transformative changes marked by a significant expansion in access and a growing emphasis on diversity. The Future of Higher Education: How Colleges Can Transform Their Financial Strategies.

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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Alexander is very accessible, very approachable for students,” says Dr. Claudia Salcedo, who adds that administrators can sometimes be perceived as separate from the students they serve. It is providing greater access for students from low-income, first-generation backgrounds. Coming from such a background drives him. “I

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Puerto Rican Resilience Is a Lesson for the Mainland

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Being an HSI gives institutions access to grants and funding that must be used to better support and serve Latinx students. Between 2010 and 2020, U.S. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Ed Excelencia, an organization promoting Latinx success in higher education and at Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). Census tracked an 11.8%

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This marks an increase of more than 15,000 Asian people in the county since 2010. The TEAS project is approaching the need to support its significant Asian student body from multiple angles, seeking out what would be the most beneficial: mentorship, mental health, and curriculum.

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Celebrating the Past, Mobilizing the Future: 20 Years of Active Minds

Active Minds

We inherited the Active Minds Speakers Bureau in 2010 from the National Mental Health Awareness Campaign and have proudly brought speakers to more than 1,000,000 youth and adult audiences in the years since. We are proud to be your resource for mental health programming, research, connections, and evidence-backed tools.